The fact that »Cheat Codes« seems completely out of time could be due to the fact that Danger Mouse hasn’t had to do rap for a living for more than 15 years and Black Thought has been comfortably making appearances on the Jimmy Kimmel Show for almost as long. But that’s not a problem, rather an ode to the zeitgeist of the message board era, when as a rapper you simply weren’t taken seriously without quadruple rhymes and a producer who used samples without a layer of dust. That was nonsense then, as it still is now anyway, but somehow it’ s also nice to be reminded in this way of one’s own time as a Cringe Lord.
Danger Mouse & Black Thought (The Roots) – Cheat Codes
